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10 April 2024
Days are getting shorter and colder. 6 tips for sticking to your fitness goals
As the days grow shorter and colder, maintaining fitness routines can be challenging. These six tips offer practical strategies to stay motivated and committed to your fitness goals.
10 April 2024
Why cocaine is considered performance-enhancing for athletes
Cocaine use is now considered performance-enhancing, particularly concerning the timing of ingestion, and the significance of when it is consumed in sports ethics and anti-doping measures.
10 April 2024
Pig kidney transplant raises hope but we're far from fixing organ shortages
The successful transplantation of a pig kidney into a human marks a significant medical milestone, but experts caution that solving organ shortages remains a distant goal.
10 April 2024
Sydney leads new trial of youth vaping schools program
The University of Sydney is leading a new approach to reduce the number of young people vaping and smoking in a trial in schools across the country.
10 April 2024
A once-dormant magnetic neutron star is emitting strangely polarised light
Magnetars are neutron stars with strong magnetic fields. With CSIRO astronomers, Dr Manisha Caleb from the School of Physics has found one of the most powerful magnets discovered - XTE J1810-197 - and it doesn't quite fit existing theory.
08 April 2024
Chinese investment in Australia falls to second lowest level since 2006
Chinese investment in Australia has diversified but plateaued, the latest report from The University of Sydney Business School and KPMG reveals.
05 April 2024
ABBA: 50 years since Waterloo
Dr Jadey O'Regan, lecturer in Contemporary Music Practice at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, recalls the magic of ABBA's Waterloo as the group releases a 50th anniversary edition of their classic pop album.
05 April 2024
New privacy-preserving robotic cameras obscure images beyond human recognition
Robotic researchers have developed a new approach to designing cameras, which they say could help protect the images and data collected by smart home devices and internet-of-things technology.
04 April 2024
Museum removes Egyptian body parts from galleries
The Chau Chak Wing Museum has this week removed unwrapped mummified body parts from its Egyptian galleries.
04 April 2024
Galaxies get more chaotic as they age
Research led by Professor Scott Croom from ASTRO 3D and the School of Physics has ruled out mass and environmental factors as the main drivers of increasing galactic chaos. Data from more than 3000 galaxies has shown it is age that leads to relative 'disorganisation' in galactic structure.